The task of the historian is to col- lect these scattered blocks and to give meaning to the struggles and plans, the strikes and the pamphlets – in short, to all the elements that were supposed to lead to the construction of a new world. [...] A number of immigrants have described the difficult conditions that marked the voyage – the lack of beds, the conglomeration of smells, the crowding of passengers and all the inconveniences associated with living in forced proximity with unfamiliar people and their children for more than a week. [...] The young family would in time move to the Beuvron’s other bank close to Jean-Baptiste’s elder brother, Didier – that is, to the southwestern edge of the village, to the hamlet of La Varenne.5 Jeanne spent the years before the family emi- grated to Canada in the shadow of her uncle’s mill beside a river teem- ing with carp and pike. [...] Thus, to the outrage of the authorities, schoolchildren refused to salute the flag or sing the national anthem.67 When, as a teenaged high-school student, Corbin first came to the notice of an RCMP agent in 1925, there were forty-five members of the YCL in Edmonton, where the Eighth District com- mittee was located, sixty-seven members in Sylvan Lake, south of the capital, and 150 in Drumheller, t [...] These party schools offered young people a sci- entific analysis on which to base the struggle to emancipate the pro- letariat.69 In a comradely atmosphere grounded in the values of coop- eration and the collective life, girls and boys were introduced to the study of the Marxist classics and to contemporary political economy.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [213]-223
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 324.271/0975/092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Translation of: Scènes de la vie en rouge Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0773531254 9780773560192
- LCCN
- HX104.7.C67
- LCCN Item number
- L4813 2006eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 233 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00221889 (OCoLC)646788095 (CaOOCEL)424785
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Introduction 10
- Abbreviations 14
- 1 From Loir-et-Cher to Alberta 18
- 2 Party Work 42
- 3 Montreal, 1930 to 1932 65
- 4 Timmins and Abitibi 102
- 5 Timmins and the Popular Front 124
- 6 Women in a Men’s Party 142
- 7 The Sanatorium 171
- Epilogue 192
- Notes 196
- Bibliography 228
- Index 240
- A 240
- B 240
- C 241
- D 242
- E 242
- F 242
- G 243
- H 243
- I 243
- J 243
- K 243
- L 244
- M 244
- N 245
- O 245
- P 245
- Q 245
- R 245
- S 246
- T 247
- U 247
- V 247
- W 248
- Y 248
- Z 248
